Exhibitions

Vitra Design Museum celebrates the enduring influence of egalitarian religious sect, the Shakers

A multi-institution exhibition explores the Shaker community’s impact on contemporary art and design

Basel location provides a twist on Steve McQueen’s most abstract work to date

After it premiered at Dia Beacon in New York last year, ‘Bass’ takes on a completely different form at the Schaulager—but its essence remains the same

A whale of a tale: new exhibition chronicles the US’s first oil addiction

The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale oil industry fueled capitalism's expansion

With a new exhibition, Fondation Beyeler celebrates the 60-year career of Vija Celmins

The retrospective features the Latvian-born artist’s meticulous depictions of the natural world alongside her lesser-known interior scenes and sculptures

Anna Maria Maiolino: ‘My body speaks to me and I’ve been listening to it since I was really young’

She won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice last year, but the Italian-born, Brazil-based artist is not slowing down. Her retrospective at the Musée Picasso in Paris contains new works, including a labour-intensive commission in clay

Cezanne family home opens to the public as Aix-en-Provence fetes its famous former resident

The Bastide du Jas de Bouffan is also celebrated in a major Cezanne exhibition at the Musée Granet

Paintinganalysis

Have we reached peak painting?

In a digital age, painting may seem quaint, but its appeal endures, among artists, scholars and collectors

Peggy Guggenheim's influential—and short-lived—London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and at London's Royal Academy

Among the highlights in the exhibition opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice next year will be a painting created by a teenage Lucian Freud

Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed medieval manuscript

The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum

Pussy Riot co-founder starts Los Angeles prison performance with existential scream

Nadya Tolokonnikova calls the two-week residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art her first durational performance

Liverpool Biennial 2025 digs deep into its city’s foundations with ‘Bedrock’ theme

The works on show in this year’s sprawling art festival explore the many aspects that make up Liverpool’s character, from its physical structure to the foundational values of its communities

London Gallery Weekend 2025: must-see shows for digital art lovers

Artists whose work demonstrates the porous boundary between digital and physical formats are to the fore in exhibitions across the UK captial

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting thought to be lost for decades goes on display in Basel

The work, which unexpectedly appeared at auction in 2024, has been restored and added to an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel

Show at Civil War-era fort spotlights California’s Black history from the 19th century to today

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a collective

Rachel Whiteread in a West Sussex woodland: UK’s Goodwood Art Foundation opens

The Duke of Richmond launches a non-profit 70-acre home to contemporary art on his estate to offer all ages the educational and health benefits of art, in a seasonally shifting plot of South Downs woodland

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital

Folklore, mythology and tradition: five must-see shows at London Gallery Weekend

Our pick of exhibitions of female artists whose practice is rooted in cultural traditions, processes and storytelling

Must-see exhibitions and must-read books on Korean art

A round up of recent publications and upcoming events to deepen your knowledge

In partnership withMinistry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

June's must-see exhibitions: copycats, queer resistance, and the intersection of art and fashion

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

At Kunsthalle Praha, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are reunited in art, as they were in life

The artist-soulmates are the subjects of a new exhibition, opening in Prague on 5 June

Steamy scenes in urban underworlds were Edward Burra’s great subject—now they're coming to Tate Britain

Despite the artist's considerable success, this forthcoming retrospective presents a relatively unknown figure

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates France’s ‘king of fashion’, who married haute couture to art

Designer Paul Poiret once asked: “Am I a fool when I dream of putting art into my dresses?”

Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses photography to tell stories of queer resistance and love

This double exhibition shows how LGBTQ+ people have used the camera to record their lives since the invention of photography

Copy that: in a new exhibition, one hundred artists reinterpret Louvre masterpieces

Painters have learnt by copying works in the museum for centuries. Now a group of high-profile contemporary artists have been invited to create entirely new works

Melbourne exhibition celebrates the long overlooked contributions of Indigenous Australian artists

While Indigenous Australian art dates back for millennia before European settlement, it has long been barred from the fine art canon

Troy, ancient site in western Turkey, hosts expansive contemporary art exhibition

The site's archaeological museum is showing the work of the artist Vuslat among its artefacts to build a bridge between contemporary art and the past

This new app aims to bring exhibition goers together—and invites anyone to be an art critic

New kid on the block gowithYamo enables users to check in at shows, leave reviews and connect with other visitors

'Everything you will see is the fruit of her work': Venice Biennale 2026 will follow late curator Koyo Kouoh's vision

The exhibition titled "In Minor Keys" will be realised by her core team “in strict accordance with the plan she defined", it was announced at a press conference today

‘I feel at home here’: Michael Rakowitz’s Acropolis Museum exhibition locates the lines between stories of lost heritage

The Iraqi-American artist’s work has been brought into dialogue with ancient artefacts in a first for the Athens-based museum

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Just a number: drawing by 11-year-old Joseph Wright of Derby goes on view for the first time

The modest pencil drawing is part of the exhibition ‘Life on Paper’ at Derby Museum and Art Gallery